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Buddhism after patriarchy: a feminist history, analysis, and reconstruction of Buddhism

Rita M. Gross c1993 © State University of New York Press
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  • 9780791414040 (paper)
  • 9780791414033 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Religion
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page ix)
  • I. Orientations
    • 1: Strategies for a Feminist Revalorization of Buddhism (page 3)
    • 2: Orientations to Buddhism: Approaches, Basics, and Contours (page 7)
  • II. Toward an Accurate and Usable Past: A Feminist Sketch of Buddhist History
    • 3: Why Bother? What Is an Accurate and Usable Past Good For? (page 17)
    • 4: Sakyadhita, Daughters of the Buddha: Roles and Images of Women in Early Indian Buddhism (page 29)
    • 5: Do Innate Female Traits and Characteristics Exist? Roles and Images of Women in Indian Mahayana Buddhism (page 55)
    • 6: The Feminine Principle: Roles and Images of Women in Indian and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism (page 79)
    • 7: Conclusions: Heroines and Tokens (page 115)
  • III. "The Dharma is Neither Male nor Female": A Feminist Analysis of Key Concepts in Buddhism
    • 8: Resources for a Buddhist Feminism (page 125)
    • 9: Setting the Stage: Presuppositions of the Buddhist Worldview (page 137)
    • 10: Strategies for a Feminist Analysis of Key Buddhist Concepts (page 153)
    • 11: Gender and Egolessness: Feminist Comments on Basic Buddhist Teachings (page 157)
    • 12: Gender and Emptiness: Feminist Comments on Mahayana Teachings (page 173)
    • 13: Gender and Buddha-Nature: Feminist Comments on Third Turning Teachings and the Vajrayana (page 185)
  • IV: The Dharma is Both Female and Male: Toward an Androgynous Reconstruction of Buddhism
    • 14: Verdicts and Judgments: Looking Backward; Looking Forward (page 209)
    • 15: Androgynous Institutions: Issues for Lay, Monastic and Yogic Practitioners (page 225)
    • 16: Androgynous View: New Concerns in Verbalizing the Dharma (page 257)
  • Methadological Appendices (page 291)
  • Notes (page 319)
  • Bibliography (page 339)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JAS 52.3 (Aug. 1993): 691-692 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2058864
BUD 14 (1994): 245-248 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1389849
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